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http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/28/core-texts-on-leadership/#respondThu, 28 Feb 2013 17:37:07 +0000http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=2245Here are samples from the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and Don Quixote on the topic of leadership:

My child, what strange remarks you let escape you. Could I forget that kingly man, Odysseus? There is no mortal half so wise; no mortal gave so much to the lords of open sky. ~ The Odyssey, Book I, lines 86-89

But the dedicated man, Aeneas, thoughtful through the restless night, made up his mind, as kindly daylight came, to go out and explore the strange new places, to learn what coast the wind had brought him to. ~ The Aeneid, Book I, lines 411-415

“It’s up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they’re going well … For I’ve heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what’s more, she’s blind, so she can’t see what she’s doing, and she doesn’t know who she’s knocking over or who she’s raising up. ~ Don Quixote

Until recently, Winston Churchill was only known to have written one poem as a schoolboy. Now, a 10-verse poem he wrote while serving in the army has emerged, from 1898 when he was 24 years old.

Two of the 10 stanza of the work, titled ‘Our Modern Watchwords’, read:

The shadow falls along the shoreThe search lights twinkle on the seaThe silence of a mighty fleetPortends the tumult yet to be.The tables of the evening mealAre spread amid the great machinesAnd thus with pride the question runsAmong the sailors and marinesBreathes there the man who fears to dieFor England, Home, & Wai-hai-wai.

]]>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/18/2145/feed/0Analects of the Core: Locke on the harm of intemperancehttp://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/07/analects-of-the-core-173-political-writings/
http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/07/analects-of-the-core-173-political-writings/#respondFri, 07 Dec 2012 18:56:28 +0000http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1908Relating to temperance, and the work of John Locke studied in CC203, here is today’s analect:

For esteem and reputation being a sort of moral strength, whereby a man is enabled to do, as it were, by an augmented force, that which others, of equal natural parts and natural power, cannot do without it; he that by any intemperance weakens this his moral strength, does himself as much harm as if by intemperance he weakened the natural strength either of his mind or body, and so is equally vicious by doing harm to himself.

]]>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/07/analects-of-the-core-173-political-writings/feed/0Analects of the Core: Homer on ruling the deadhttp://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/28/analects-of-the-core-168-the-odyssey/
http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/28/analects-of-the-core-168-the-odyssey/#respondWed, 28 Nov 2012 19:00:51 +0000http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1834Yesterday’s analect from Paradise Lost can be contrasted with today’s choice:

By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man— some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive— than rule down here over all the breathless dead. (The Odyssey,11.556-8)